Posted on 12/15/2005 10:10:39 PM PST by airedale
I know this is a dead issue and I don't want to flog a dead horse, but I was wondering how many of the children's books that Tookie wrote were actually sold? I know there were 9 of them but not one media source ever said how many of them were sold.
Every dollar a Freeper makes selling those books is a dollar that won't go to moveon.org!
As Emily whats-her-name would say, "Never mind."
flog (flôg)
tr.v. flogged, flog·ging, flogs
1. To beat severely with a whip or rod.
2. Informal. To publicize aggressively: flogging a new book.
Isn't the second definition exactly what Tookie's supporters are now doing to his corpse?
Actually they used his still warm and live corpse for their cause. Now that he's dead, you don't hear a peep. Roadkill, does not evoke any emotions.
Wasn't that a beotch? Puts a target on that back of every cop in that state. I wonder how many commencement addresses this murdering POS will live to deliver to all those college morons.
He's a little over 50 now; I figure two decades, at the most. Less if he smokes.
Went to a dental appointment in SF on Tuesday afternoon. On my way, I saw signs in windows such as, "Arnold Is A Coward." One house had a California flag upside down. The murder of a full-term infant doesn't bother them, but the lawful, just and long overdue execution of a vicious murderer of innocent people infuriates them. My kind of people. Not.
I can almost guarantee his lawyers and closest supporters have been planning just that for some time now.
Tookie's a cookie, but it's all about the benjamins.
LOL!
They suck so much my shop vac won't show its face.
Yep. And they'll advertise that all the proceeds will go to kids programs in the 'hoods -- after "expenses" of couse.
They're trying.
Check out www.savetookie.org. There's already a pre-order link. Somewhere out there is probably also a trust fund managed by the ever so charming and considerate to the victims families Babs Becnel.
Check your library. Des Moines has 9 of them in the children's non-fiction category.
Let,s talk about a roten subject?
Like Tookie in his pine box!!
Hey, some respect for a great author, please. Tookie spent years composing that stuff. Now he's busy decomposing.
Axtually Tookie never wrote them. Someone else did and just credited him. No matter, none of them sold really, only some that wwere donated to libraries.
Besides, none of the street scum they were supposed to have been written for to "help" can't read anyway. Maybe they had lots of nice bright pictures.
gm probably sold more oldsmobiles this year than tookie didbooks. i suggest he does a book signing tour.
According to Amazon, Tookie wrote only 8 books.
The first, "Life In Prison" comprises only 80 pges and is #932 on Amazon sales.
"Redemption" is #6,812.
"Gangs & Abuse Of Power": 24 pages. #7,330
"Gangs & Weapons": 24 pages. #110,901
"Gangs & Violence": 24 pages. # 232,800
"Gangs & Your Friends": 24 pages. #535, 890
"Gangs & Self Esteem": 24 pages. #593,362
"Gangs & Wanting To Belong": 24 pages. #950,393
"Gangs & Your Neighborhood": 24 pages. #680,113
It sure does look like Tookie was running a last failed appeal scam and didn't sell many books at all, airedale.
Jack.
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